After banning hacking tools it looks like the German police are looking into digital wiretapping and creating ‘whitehat’ trojans for monitoring the bad guys…
Of course they define who the bad guys are, and according to law 202(c) it could be us..
This is very definitely questionable when it comes to ethics, it’s almost as bad as [...]

This has been floating around for a while and you might have noticed a warning on some German based security sites that they’ve had to move their tools due to this new legislation known as 202(c) - a couple of examples are KisMAC and Phenoelit.
Basically the new law prohibits manufacturing, programming, installing, or spreading software [...]

So the latest news is that the RFID chips in electronically enabled passports are NOT encrypted, which bright spark came up with that idea?
Ok so you implement ‘more secure’ RFID passports, and leave all the data in plain text for anyone to tamper with - nice!
So what do you think they are gonna do about [...]

RFID, biometrics, hi-tech police officers, yes it’s all going to be happening in Germany for the close approaching World Cup 2006.

Not surprisingly, security is a top priority for the German government, even higher than its desire to see the national team walk off the pitch with the World Cup 2006 trophy.
The list of security precautions [...]